Jodi Kantor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Husband #Wife #Appearance
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.
-- Jodi Kantor

#President #Neighbor #Difficult
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Children #Careers #Two
You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Real #Progress #Honest
I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!
-- Jodi Kantor

#Political #I've Learned #Predictions
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Play #Presidential #Special
It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Husband #Political #Feelings
Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Childhood #Topics #Veteran
The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Home #People #Old Friends
I don't like corporate diversity workshops.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Diversity #Workshops #Corporate
Michelle Obama kind of has two identities. In private, she is actually often much more vehement than her husband about Republican opposition. It was very hard to get sources to put it on the record, but they would describe the way she talked about Republicans and opposition in private. And, you know, her remarks were scorching. The level of heat that she can give off in these conversations is often much greater than what Barack Obama does.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Husband #Two #Giving
Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.
-- Jodi Kantor

#Want #Taking The High Road #High Road

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